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Timeline Of The Near Future

Subjects : trivia, history
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1. Triple conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn.






2. August will be the first time Pluto reaches aphelion since its discovery.






3. At 15-28 UTC - on September 14 - Venus will eclipse Jupiter.






4. FIFA World Cup to be held in Qatar.






5. Venus occults Spica.The previous occultation of Spica by Venus was on November 10 - 1783. December 24 - The Moon will occult Neptune.






6. With an estimated probability of 0.07% - Apollo asteroid 1999 RQ36 could hit the Earth.






7. The planetoid 90377 Sedna reaches perihelion.






8. Winter Olympics held in Sochi - Russia. 2014 FIFA World Cup held in Brazil. Expected time of completion for the World Trade Center site. The fifth report of the UN'sInternational Panel on Climate Change to be given.






9. The One country - two systems model between China and Macau will expire.






10. First expected manned mission to Mars by NASA.






11. 2016 Summer Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro.






12. Triple conjunction Mars






13. Copyright on the earliest Mickey Mouse cartoons expires.






14. There will be a Solar Eclipse on August 21.






15. The second full orbit of Neptune around the sun since its discovery in 1846.






16. Long-duration lunar eclipse of approximately 106.1 minutes.






17. Two solar eclipses will occur in this year.






18. December 10






19. 2018 FIFA World Cup to be held in Russia. 2018 Winter Olympics to be held in Pyeongchang - South Korea.






20. 7th millennium begins in the Hebrew calendar.






21. Solar eclipse of 7 min 26 s - saros 139.






22. Return of Halley's Comet.






23. The maximum calendar year limit within the Microsoft Windows XP - Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.






24. Two solar eclipses will occur in this year.






25. The M1 Abrams will be retired from service.






26. Transit of Venus on June 11.






27. Last year which can be represented using the File Allocation Table date format.






28. Transit of Venus.






29. Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System.






30. The 17th Pan-American Games to be held in Toronto. Spacecrafts New Horizons and Dawn to arrive at the dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres - respectively. Alignment of Earth - Venus and Jupiter. Rugby World Cup held in England and Wales. 2015 Cricket World






31. At 15-28 UTC - on September 14 - Venus will eclipse Jupiter.






32. Transit of Mercury.






33. Year 2038 problem - similar to the Year 2000 problem may occur on this date.






34. 52 UTC - Venus will occult Saturn.






35. Triple conjunction Mars






36. Cosmic Call 1 will reach its destination - the star Gliese 777.






37. Winter Olympics held in Sochi - Russia. 2014 FIFA World Cup held in Brazil. Expected time of completion for the World Trade Center site. The fifth report of the UN'sInternational Panel on Climate Change to be given.






38. Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System






39. 7th millennium begins in the Hebrew calendar.






40. Triple conjunction Mars






41. Construction of Sagrada Familia to be completed.






42. Information on the Falklands War declassified.






43. The Green Wall of China is expected to be completed.






44. August will be the first time Pluto reaches aphelion since its discovery.






45. Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System.






46. The Chernobyl exclusion zone becomes habitable.






47. Transit of Mercury and an occultation of Jupiter by Venus.






48. On March 14 (which will be February 29 in the Julian calendar) - the difference between the Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar reaches 14 days. Since 14 is divisible by 7 - this will be the first time in history since its inception that the G






49. Triple conjunction Mars






50. Triple conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn.